Opinion: Don’t Discount the Snowden Snubs

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... I ... wanna news out of that we can about Edward Snowden first Egoista Hong Kong ... spends a couple weeks there and then he shows up in Vladimir Putin's ... Russia despite US requests to extradite him ... so so much for the Asian pivot and the Russian reset editorial board member ... Matt Kaminski is here to discuss map ... the Hong Kong I thought the U S had an extradition treaty with Hong Kong ... what does it say about our prestigious they ... just won in twenty ... oh so the US economy and your means living ... over the weekend when he was like to board a flight to Moscow he had told his American passport such as the queues Ecuadorean ... refugee status papers to get through ... I think was a Hong Kong the first thing that ... China was clearly involved in as coming out now they said they'd ... had the final say ... letting him go ... but they also says that China was happy to have them there for awhile ... he could expose American hypocrisy on cyber surveillance ... but the new one a long-term irritants ... in a long drawn out fight over takes fish in ... Stoughton was popular in China and Hong Kong so the lead and how it's interesting that this happens right after that that that China summit in California apparently ... of relations didn't warm after that between two leaders let let's turn outs of either Putin's ... on Russia what does Putin get out of housing soon ... as you can for for so we're not sure we're still in exactly is doing a sign that had a week to week said today they use their in Moscow but no one's seen him ... a mean come on today's flights which has seats ... book to Havana ... again it's a mixed as the China this is in it and consider the Middle East you where ... you couldn't can poke the US in the nineties used anti Americanism for years to ... legitimize him self and in Russia ... I don't think you want Stoughton around for too long aam you know is happening the Snowden we know if the ... ex KGB comical the FSB ... is going to miss for computers the Seaway has their or ... or question him ... but Sony battery of good news in no mood to satisfy American ... on ... a quest to turn him over ... obeyed not for me said no yet so so we'll see what happens when this to say about U S prestige and power in the world ... if we have to countries that supposedly we're were focused on ... weakness a ship in a riotous Russian reset ... and yet we can get them to turn on for a single guy ... who is so important to us to our national security but the sunset ... well I mean I think it says that you not since the mid eighteen seventies has the US had ... it has been Theodoor respected less than it is now ... I mean what's amazing ... about Hong Kong is that people thought that clearly Hong Kong which was being dependent on the part of China ... would comply with its dating do so ... the awesome music ususally have the leverage diplomatic ... to get what it means is very frustrating for them I think the Aussie November Clears guilt ... can aid Obama said I'm going to restore America's standing in the world ... this is a small but possibly very telling example ... to our influence is limited ... and it is because it is a weenie ... and in other countries I assume around the world are watching this ... this isn't just confined to the skin nations and if you are in line in you're looking at that that this situation what lessons did Iran ... will ... cure Irani derive plenty lessons of the last of the foreigner half years I've been reading a lesson now in Syria where the elusive blown through ... numerous red lines on when would take to get involved ... and when I even getting involved there ... aam I think you know this assertive ... been ... portion the pattern of our foreign policy ... you know it's it's one thing to say that we want to restore our standing a moral standing in the world ... but the problem is that a lot of these countries especially countries that are not democracies and I'm ... you know with respect power ... and ... we've settled last four years earlier of power in decline with priests were cutting a military budget honestly ... Hussein with the animal people the world ... we don't want to be like George Bush on the country's what to do ... but it sends a signal of weakness ... and whether right or not that Saddam is being received ... well the snow the snobs and their lessons none of them particularly ... encouraging ... editoral board member Matt Kaminski thanks think you're being on the show